#minecraft automatic farm

[thrillager-chillager]

SEMI-AUTOMATIC BEE FARMS! Finished version of my previous post. These units can be combined to make a positively enormous farm.

World download link (dropbox): https://www.dropbox.com/s/uid49l34a97xqeo/Redstone%202_%20Electric%20Boogaloo.zip?dl=0

More info:

The honeycomb farm uses a sticky piston, a dispenser with shears, flowing water, and a hopper to collect honeycomb. It’s powered by a lever. The power source and output can be modified to connect to other systems, like a storage silo. Sometimes the honeycomb clips through the walls, this can be fixed by surrounding the piston and beehive with more blocks.

The honey bottle farm uses a slightly modified ilmango design. It uses an input chest with glass bottles, three hoppers, and a downward facing dropper on top of a dispenser. The dropper puts one bottle into the dispenser, which fires at the beehive, and collects the filled honey bottle, sending it through the hoppers into the input chest. It is also powered by a lever and can be hooked up to other systems via the power, input, and output chests.

The combination farm combines four farms horizontally. In my example I have mirrored half of a double farm, creating a farm with two honeycomb harvesters on the inside, and two honey bottle harvesters on the outside. The redstone power circuits have been linked together with one lever. There are two output chests, which aggregate honeycomb and honey bottles. Theoretically, a farm with this formation could extend indefinitely.

Please note that only the single honey bottle farm has bees in it. You can add bees to the other farms by using the summon command, or by using bee eggs.

[thrillager-chillager]

I’ve created an automatic bee farm. It harvests honeycomb AND honey bottles!

 The honey bottle harvester is an adaptation of an ilmango design. I came up with honeycomb harvester myself, it’s fairly simple: a pair of shears in a dispenser on the side and a stickypiston+solid block on top, powered by the same redstone line. It drops the honeycomb into the water on the bottom and collects in a hopper linked to a chest.

The next step is the make this thing modular- I want rows upon rows of beehives that harvest with a single button. I also want indicator lights, and to use observers to make it completely automatic, but I don’t know how observers work... yet.